Intent Quotes

Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.